An OECD report states that changes to the country's political and institutional systems are crucial to ensuring the success of ambitious reforms currently underway to boost economic growth and raise living standards. The report adds that labour market reforms will improve Italy's low productivity growth and will also help potentially high-growth, productive firms to overcome barriers to their development. Additional efforts should also be made to improve the skills of people that often do not match the jobs available.
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A decree law is set to open the way for certain State responsibilities, such as education, local health services, social inclusion and culture, to be decentralised. According to the largest teachers union FENPROF the government has legislated on matters that are structural to education and to the country, without taking into account the portions of the educational community, namely teachers' organisations, the Council of Schools, school management organisations, or even the National Association for Portuguese Municipalities.
English: http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/teachers-unhappy-at-govt-plans ...
Hungarian media report that the Hungarian owned OTP bank will lay off 134 employees in Croatia. The layoffs are linked to a merger between the OTP bank and the Banco Populare, which OTP acquired in 2014. Redundancies are expected to centre on the administrative staff of the OTP bank.
English: http://dalje.com/en-croatia/otp-bank-to-lay-off-134-employees-in-croatia ...
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) started a campaign to increase the minimum hourly wage. BFAWU stated that the `minimum wage should be increased to £10 per hour so that working people do not have to be supported with benefits'. The union spreads this message via an animation on YouTube.
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch ...
Trade unions have expressed concerns about a rising number of employers requiring potential hires to perform an unpaid job trial before offering a formal employment contract. In a newspaper article, Leif Håkansson of Swedish labour union IF Metall said that workers will do almost anything to attain a job in times of high unemployment, and that employers praying on them by offering exploitative job trials. Job trials are only common in companies without collective bargaining agreements, which set out the minimum wage per sector or firm.
English: http://www.staffingindustry.com/eng/Research-Publications/Daily-News/Sweden ...
Spanish based wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has signed a global framework agreement with representatives from CCOO Industry, MCA-UGT and FITAG-UGT. The agreement, which will apply to Gamesa's subsidiaries across the world, contains clauses regarding workers' representation and respect of workers' rights. The agreement protects social, labour and environmental rights, as well as committing the company to principles of gender equality and non-discrimination. Gamesa and the trade unions jointly will monitor the implementation of the agreement.
English: http://www.industriall-union.org/industriall-global-union-signs-global-framework ...
Meeting with European trade unions, Labour Minister Panos Skourletis said the new government intends to re-build collective bargaining and workers' rights. Over the last years, while agreements with the troika of ECB, IMF and European Commission introduced a broad spectrum of austerity measures, collective bargaining rights have been under attack.
English: http://www.uniglobalunion.org/news/greece-uni-europa-well-bring-back ...
Teachers' unions have called a rally in front of the education ministry on 17 February. The teachers are protesting against the lack of consultation regarding measures announced in the government's law on work stability, which if adopted will change the structure of remuneration in education. While teachers and trade unions have not received any formal information on the reform, rumours say that the law includes a change from annual salary increases based on tenure to one based on merit. Trade unions have requested to be officially informed and consulted on the changes, but have not received a response from the ministry.
English: http://www.ei-ie.org/en/news/news_details/3427
Workers at the Defence Support Group (DSG), a group that maintains, repairs and overhauls military equipment, have overwhelmingly accepted a `significantly' improved pay offer drawing to a close a long running dispute at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) facility. The members of trade union Unite backed the revised pay offer of 1% plus a £1,250 bonus by 91% in a ballot. The pay deal, representing a 66 per cent increase on what was on the table before the dispute, followed 16 days of strike action. Members of Unite, UNISON and GMB, working for police forces in England and Wales backed an improved pay offer. In a ballot civilian staff, including 999 call handlers, scene of crime officers, police community support officers and custody officers, accepted the revised pay offer of 2.2%, or £400, whichever is greater. The workers had been offered a one per cent pay rise by the police employers on the Police Staff Council, but received an improved offer after a threatened strike in January. The police agreement will cover the 18 months from 1 March 2015 to 31 August 2016.
English: http://www.unitetheunion.org/news/defence-workers-end-dispute-after-accepting ...
http://www.unison.org.uk/news/police-members-say-yes-to-pay-offer
Workers at three Paris airports went on strike against the wage freeze imposed by their employer Aéroports de Paris, which runs the Charles de Gaulle, Orly and Le Bourget airports. The strike, which was intended to be a one-day strike but went into its second day on Friday 13 February, disrupted traffic at Charles de Gaulles airport, where about 20% of the flights were cancelled. The workers refuse to accept the proposed pay freeze in light of the €358 million profit that the company made in 2014. A trade union spokesperson said that shareholders receive all the benefits from the company's well-functioning operations, while its employees are asked to accept a wage freeze.
English: http://www.thelocal.fr/20150213/paris-airport-strike-to-see-flights-hit